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Users not knowing what a url bar even is will be actively dangerous when they've somehow managed to land on a fishing site though.

I don't think that can be engineered away in any reasonable way soon, so saying they shouldn't need to know seems irresponsible to me



> somehow managed to land on a fishing site though.

Hmmm. It took me a while to figure out that you weren't referring to sites for angling enthusiasts.


This is the only issue I see with the new bar. The system would work fine if it wasn't for malicious actors trying to pose as other sites. Some official documents give specific instructions to type the whole url and not to use google.




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